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Q. What is a data center?
A. A data center is a computer facility designed for continuous use by several users, and well equipped with hardware, software, peripherals, power conditioning and backup, communication equipment, security systems, etc.

In data centers, businesses will continue to leverage the computing and storage infrastructure Managed Hosting operators have made large investments in, and derive increased cost savings and benefits by utilizing shared, highly available infrastructure.

Energy costs are rising for most data centers. Companies should employ tools and techniques to manage the energy cost curve.

The rise in technology and a changing corporate landscape have presented data center operators new challenges.

Virtual machines offer many benefits: server consolidation, increased utilization and faster recovery times after failure.

Desktop virtualization enables a centralized server to deliver and manage individualized desktops remotely. This gives users a full client experience, but lets IT staff provision, manage, upgrade and patch them virtually, instead of physically.

There are many ways that users can corrupt or lose information, including inadvertent file deletion, inadvertent file overwrites, new software installs, lost or stolen computers, hardware failures, virus or hacker attacks and natural disasters.

Some functions in the Cisco Unified Computing System are similar to those offered by the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches, but with a different set of applications and design scenarios. The Cisco Unified Computing System offers the capability to present adapters to physical and (in the near future) virtual machines directly. When presented to the virtual machines, VN-Link technology can provide many of the same benefits as those described for the Cisco Nexus 1000V Series.

Building green IT systems do come with an added cost. These systems do need to take into account the overall short and long term sustainability, the total cost of ownership and the costs of safe recycling and disposal. But when used with efficient and effective policies, the return on investment can be much greater for the organization, employees and the community.

The data storage system may further include a third arbiter for controlling communication of data from the first storage processor and the second storage processor to a third group of disk drives of the disk drive array. Selected data isredundantly stored on disk drives in the first group of disk drives, the second group of disk drives and, the third group of disk drives such that, upon failure of the first arbiter, the selected data is available to the first storage processor and thesecond storage processor through the second and third arbiters.

Next-generation data centers have specific server networking needs, and the Cisco Nexus 5010 one-rack unit (RU) switch provides an Ethernet-based unified fabric that's designed to meet those needs.